Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1932, Page 20

B4 DRASTIC GOST CUTS EASE TAX BURDEN Deflation of City and State Expenses Reported to Realty Boards. Current movements seeking drastic “deflation” of city and State expendi- tures this year and for long-term bet- terment of the whole tax structure, based on study of all economic factors, represent strong public impulse, the National Association of Real Estate Boards stated today. Strength of the two programs is shown in the reports submitted to the realty body at its recent annual busi- ness meeting in St. Louls, where a series of Executive Committee meet- ings, delegate discussions and round table conferences was held to unify proposed action by real estate taxpay- ers, the association reports. pokesmen for various States and weighed objectives, considered ns and exchanged experiences at St. Louls meetings, details of which are published today by the asso- ciation. It is planned that action seek- jng tax relief will be taken through the roperty owners’ division of local mem- T boards. Pittsburgh Rate Cut. “A cut of 10 per cent in the 1932 city tax rate, achieved through a sys- tematic $3,000,000 pruning of the budget, was the story Pittsburgh had to tell. A 10 per cent reduction in total State and local budgets is re- ported for Towa,” the association re- ports. In that State real estate, repre- senting half the wealth, is paying 93 per cent of State, county, city and other local taxes, exclusive of auto- mobile and gas taxes. Indiana, whose system of State budget control in re- cent years has eliminated some $91,000,000 in proposed local tax Jevies, now has a strong movement on o reduce existing tax costs, as & step to hasten business recovery.” The convention reviewed detail by detail the proposed tax program for real estate submitted by Dr. Simeon E. associate professor of eco- University of Chicago, its tax adviser. The proposed program, characterized @s the first complete tax platform ever s0 framed. by action of the directors was boards, without recommendation, for study and for their information in con- nection with the tax action they are now planning. The Governor of Missouri, Henry S. Caulfield. who holds tax adjustment to be part of his job, opened the conven- tion, responded to its key subject mat- ter, offered co-operation toward the elimination of waste in city and gov- ernmental operation Speaking for Indiana, Senator Joe Rand Beckett, Indianapolis, credited the ndiana Plan” of budget control with saving the State not only millions of dollars through veto of unnecessary local t: levies and bond issues, but millions more through the moral effect cn administrative officials of that veto r. Total indebtedness of all gov-!| 4 per cent of the State's total sessed valuation. Relief Cited in Indiana. But, he said, the average worker's power. « ent units in the State is now less t a income in Indiana in 1913 was $368, | his tax payment $58, leaving $310 for private spending. In 1929 the in- come had grown to $819, the tax slice to $208, leaving a remainder of $611. placed in the hands of member | REAL ESTATE. plane settled. Dropping down from the curdled gold of the sky . . . swallowed up in the blue shadow of night which filled the small clearing. Something terrifying in this swift changing of light . . . Judy, tense in the front cockpit, gripping the leather seat with an intensity which she did mnot realize until later, when she felt the ache at the base of her nalls, fourd a single phrase ringing through her numbed brain, as though a solemn voice had chanted it: The valley of the shadow of death . . . the shadow !of death . . . { A moment of paralyzing fright . . . a moment centuries long—then the plane was swooping to the clearing— HE mountain walls seemed rush- I ing up to meet them as the grass bending passage, ‘The space was surprisingly level, as these mountain meadows so frequently jare. A creek bisected it, but Nick had |landed the plane the long way of the fleld and brought it to a stop with some yards to spare before the almost per- pendicular walls of rock cliff shot up again. Judy had been flung into the bot- tom of the cockpit with the force of landing. In an instant Nick was bend- ing anxiously over her. “Hurt, Judy?” She scrambled 'k into the seat, shoving back her hat, which had been knocked down over her eyes. “N-no. I don't think so. What happened?” “I had to make a forced landing. Something wrong . . . didn’t yoy hear the engine coughing?” “Yes, it sounded wrong. What's the matterg” Nick did not answer. He had gone to the front of the plane and raised the hood. Judy could see the scowling in- tentness of his profile through the thick light, as he bent closer, tinkering with the intricacles of the complicated en- gine. She looked curiously about her, notic- ing their landing place. This was the meadow of the small cabin. There it was, over by & bend of the creek, just discernible in the twilight. The chill of night already lay in this deep clear- ing. but no light shone from the small, high windows of the cabin, nor did she see any one moving about it. Like a queer dream, to be sitting here, perched up in the cockpit, looking oui |at this unfamiliar scene. Rather awingly still, now that the roar of the motor was shut off. Still, with the somber hush of the mountains. Grow- ing out of the stillness, she became aware of the slight rush of the creek. A bird sang abruptly somewhere from the dark mass of the forest, and as abruptly stopped. Already the light had darkened. She could not read Nick's expression now as he bent over the engine. Nick walked back. Stood on the ground, looking up at her with a trou- bled look. *“Of all the fool things . . . T'm afraid we're in for it, Judy.” “What the matter “Gasoline's clogged “What does that mean?” “Well, it's not fatal. I can fix it. But not in this light. Can't see. And guess this i3 where we stay tomight, udy She looked steadily back at him, their | eves caught—locked—in the thick light. Judy's eyes . . . enormous in her white Her hair—grown to her shoulders | te Wife skimming over the ground, the green | with the wind of their | pird. |it's growing darker every minute. I \ THE EVENING STAR, WASMINGTON, By N N Ann Forester | now, had become loosened and s soft brown lock hung against one cheek. Automatically she shoved it up under the small hat. “Well . .. " she sald. “Well...." “I'll go over to the shack and see who's there. Maybe the fellow who lives there has a flivver in that shed in the back, and we can leave the plane here and get you down to the nearest town, where we can send a wire.” Judy watched Nick walk away, a tall and indistinct figure in the growing twilight. Mountain stillness wrapped her around again. So still . . . sit- ting here in the stalled plane. A strange dream that she and Nick should be marooned like this. All night . . . So odd that they should be easily soar- ing over these peaks at one moment— godlike in their disdain for distance or time; following the sunset. And the next—sunk here in the shadow of the ru‘;lges—t.he plane like a crippled ‘The sound of knocking startled her. Sounds traveled here with the strange clarity of the mountains. That was Nick knocking on the closed door of the cabin. Peering with wide eyes through the dusk she could see him try the door. Now he was pressing his face against the small window pane, trying to see within. After a moment she saw him walk around to the small, dark patch of shed which showed in the rear. Lonely, and a little frightening, with Nick's tall figure out of sight. Still and cold. . . . Judy shivered. Nick came back. Just the sight of him was reassuring, but when he came closer the girl saw that his face was grave. “No one there. Chances are it's a hunter’s cabin, only used now and then. I'm going to break in. It's getting cold and we've got to have a place to stay.” “Wait—I'll Eo with you.” | In silence he helped her from the plane and they walked across the clear- | ing together. The murmur of the stream became louder. It sounded like many voices | on the sweet, sharp air. Moving through the swimming gray light, through these | unfamiliar surroundings, was a strange dream. . . . Surely in a minute she {would wake end find herself in the | comfortable commonplaceness of her | bed room at Lockwood. | The cabin loomed before them, still |and dark. The door was secured with a padlock. But it was a small padlock |and cheap. Nick soon disposed of it with & hammer and monkey wrench. At the<fourth blow it fell apart. The door creaked open when Nick pushed it. | Judy watched, wide-eyed, behind him as Nick turned his flashlight into the interior. A one-room cabin. Small, rusty wood | stove, with & pile of chopped branches in the soap box which stood beside it. | The beam of Nick's spotlight fell on | rough pine walls and bare rafters; came | to rest on a small board table. There | was a kerosene lamp on the table, which Nick lit. The increased light showed them further details of the room. A camp cot, with a thin khaki pad. A | rope stretched from two nails across a Heating Equipment | 4100 Georgia Ave. AD-0I45 corner held the blankets—hung up to air against dampness. A shelf which held an assortment of canned goods. Niok crossed to this last and read the labels aloud: “Tomato soup—canned beans—Judy, I have & low taste, I dote on canned beans! Corn—spaghetti— corned beef. At least we aren't going to starve. And for breakfast there’s flapjack flour. I'm the uncrowned flap- jack of the West! Wait until you eat the flapjacks I'm going to make for . Babies have been known to cry for my flapjacks; 's'fact!” Judy knew he was talking gayly to cover the awkwardness of the situation. A strange, nervous _excitement had seized her as well. Her laugh was a trifie shaky. “Here's the baby who won't disappoint you, then! I'm get- ting hungry.” He eyed her warmly. “Good little sport. Gee, Judy. I'm sorry! This is s tough break for you. This ntight happen any time, you know. Just your luck it hlgpened on this trip. If we were anywhere but stuck in these con- founded mountains. Or if it had been an hour earlier even. With daylight I c%\‘xld fix that trouble and take off w"'sut we haven't daylight,” Judy sald steadily. “And we'll have to make the best of it. I guess we're lucky to have shelter.” “You sald it!” Nick said tersely. “It's going to be plenty cold tonight. Sup- pose you stay here while I go to get the wing lines out and tie the old boat up 80 the wind doesn’t carry her away in the night and leave us stranded for the rest of our lives. I'll hitch her to a couple of trees and come back and start a fire. I want to catch the last of this daylight.” He was gone—his figure dark as he made his way across the gray clearing. Judy watched him for a moment through the open door, and an excited wonder began in her heart. Marooned . . . it had happened so quickly—so simply, that she had hardly grasped the significance of the thing as yet. All in a minute—she and Nick, dropped here in this forsaken valley, lost_to the world—dropped out of the world. All in a minute they had D. C, dropped from the conventional world, from the complicated twentieth century back into primitive frontler days. Here was none of the complicated machinery of every-day life which she had grown to take as a matter of course. Here was only Nick to rely upon. Nick out there in the thick dusk. .. er comfort—her protection. . . . She might have been some pio- neer wife isolated here with her mate in the wilderness. . . . hgh. h ‘mvects iid WAL passing ought, sweet, Wi through her vei For & moment time was ‘suspended. Problems had ceased. The past and the future were wiped out. And the present had become very simple. A man and a woman seeking shelter from the mountain night. . . . Primitive needs, food, warmth and shel- ter crowding out artificial values. . . . Excitement in being marooned in this mountain fastness with Nick. Excite- ment ., . ¢ dangerously sweet. . . . ‘Tomorrow—Mountain Night. EMORY M. E. PASTOR WILL DISCUSS “POWER” Two BSermons, Epworth League Meeting and Other Program Features Announced. | morrow at 11 am. the pastor, Rev.| |Harry V. Wheeler, will preach on | “Power” and at 8 p.m. he will continue the series of sermons on “Stewardship.” Epworth League is at 7 p.m. | On Tuesday, February 23, at 6:30 |tain the women of the church at a | banguet. At the home of Maj. and Mrs. | M. H. Welch, 6721 Piney Branch road, | Wednesday evening the Class of Friend- | tained. At Emory M. E. Church South to- || | p.m. the Board of Stewards will enter- | ship and their husbands will be enter- || At the Thursday evening s pastor will continue the study |ism and World Need.” vice the | ethod. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1932. REAL ESTATE. Lo C'OMMUNITV A Select Home Development Close to Downtown Washington This home embraces every feature of the complete well appointed home of today. Large living room with fireplace; 2 bed rooms; tiled bath with shower and built-in fixtures; latest type gas range; Westinghouse electric refrigerator; havdwood floors throughout; full cellar. Comvemient to trolley, bus lines, stores, schools and churches. Open For Inspection Drive over Key Bridge—out Wilson Boulevard to Clarendon, turn south on Marion Avenue \WEAVER. BRO REALTORS Mortgage Loan Correspondent, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Washington Bldg. District 9486 COMFORT in these Cooley Bros. homes BUILT-IN PIPED-IN In 1931 the income was down to $506, | L4 . it arieasen @ el Buy a Home With All Conveniences only $301 for private spending. Defla- | tion of government costs in proportion 50 to private deflation, he held, would ad-i ’ o real estae Sample House, 1839 Bay St. S.E. How real estate taxpayers of Pitts- burgh, by systematic search for items | Between 18th. 19th, B and C Sts. S.E. Near Eastern High School in which economies could be made, Salesmen on Premises Daily . p, cenr Eastere succeeded in lowering the city millage | 10 per cent was the testimony offered Until 9 P.M. Hot-water heat (oversize boller) Hot-water storage tank 6 rooms and bath by R. L. McKallip, chairman of the community research bureau of the Pittsburgh Real Estate Board. The bu- Oif fiaee Tasudts sub: rcau, employing an expert budget- Glassed sleeping porch Paneled walls Front and rear porches Hardwood floors Bath—colored tile and showers Hardwood trim Built-in tub Fricidaire Built-in Wall safe Walker cleetric dish washer Or a ‘modern fireplace Fluid heat—noiseless ofl dining set with benches Extra heavy tin_roof, 20 lined closet GARAGE BUY AT YOUR OWN TERMS Steuart Brothers, Inc. Real Estate Construction 138 12th St. N.E. Inaddition to Cooley Bros., these Washing- ton builders also mod- ernize their homes with gas: makér, made a_four-months study of 8 the 1931 budget, recommended to the City Council cuts totaling $3,000,000. In Shelby County, Tenn., in which Memphis is located, the local property‘ owners' division, reviewing the bud- Ce: gel with tax officials, helped find cuts‘ totaling $300,000, thus reducing the | tax rate 7 cents. | J. Frank LindSey, Chicago, who| spoke for Llinois, cited a recent Cook County couft decision in a test case, b ht by the Oak Park Real Estate rd, which voided the 1930 tax roll on the ground that failure of tax of-| ficials to include some $19,000,000,000 tangible and intangible personal property constituted fraud. The case was brought to emphasize the inequal- ity of the present “uniform rule” of the Tllinois constitution (adopted 1848) | under which Cook County real estate, ! valued at $9.000,000,000, pays 88 per cent of the tax total. Tangible and in- Thos. J. Fischer Co. e Announces the Appointment of ¥ Fox G. L. Bennett L. E. Breuninger & Sons, Inc. Boss & Phelps Breuninger & Phifer Edson W. Briggs, Inc. Cafritz Construction Co. Capital View Realty Company Casey Engineering Company Columbia Construction Company Henry J. Connor D. J. Dunigan, Ine. Federal Construction Co. rror door Bullt-in' teleshone closct Model home of the Coolev Bros. development at 2424 3%th st. nw. For information, visit the home or address Cooley Bros, Tower Bldg, NAtional 9240. Copeland Electrical Refrigeration S S, ONCE the framework of a house is up, the builder can spend the rest of his budget in either of two ways—for showy things to make a quick sale, or for lasting comforts and conven- iences to give permanent value. In the latter class are the new Cooley Bros. homes on 39th St. N.W. Ideal automatic gas heat—Electrolux, the silent, economical gas refriger- ator—Quality gas range with all the modern improvements—automatic gas water heater—weatherstripping on all windows and doors—seasoned For Service—Potomac 2781 — o G. H. Gaskins AVIATRIX WILL SPEAK o . c Wm. D. Goodman The McCutcheon Engineering Co. Harvard Terrace Development Amelia Earhart Putnam, famous Company eviatrix, will speak at a meeting of the Sanass e e Electrical Refrigerators H. P. Huddieson ‘The transatlantic fiyer's topic will be Independent Investment Co. srrs.ngemcnu program. = = Randolph L. 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